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PEOPLE'S EDITION.
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IRISH MELODIES.
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SIR HENRY BISHOP.
Kcto Coition.
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1882.
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NOTICE TO FIRST EDITION.
THE PUBLISHERS take the opportunity of the celebration of the
Centenary of our great Irish Poet to produce an edition of his u IRISH
MELODIES," with Pianoforte accompaniments, at so low a price as to
permit them to hope that these exquisite productions of genius may
have a very wide circulation amongst all classes, and tkat thus they
may become even more popular than they have hitherto been.
This edition is complete ; not a single one of the " IRISH
"Melodies" has been emitted.
May 28, 1879.
CONTENTS.
After the battle
Alone in crowds to wander on
And doth not a meeting like this .
As a beam o'er the face of the waters
As slow our ship her foamy track .
As vanquished Erin wept beside
At the mid hour of night .
Avenging and bright fall the swift sword
Before the battle
.Believe me, if all those endearing, &c.
By that lake, whose gloomy shore .
By the Feal's wave benighted
By the hope within us springing
Come o'er the sea, maiden, with me
Come, rest in this bosom
Come, send round the wine
Dear harp of my country •
Desmond's song
Drink to her who long
Down in the valley, come meet me to-night
Drink of this cup . . .
Echo .
Erin ! the tear and the smile in thine eyes
Eveleen's bower ...
Fairest ! put on awhile
Farewell ! but whenever you welcome, &c.
Fill the bumper fair . .
Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour .
Forget not the field where they perished
From this hour the pledge is given .
Go where glory waits thee .
Has sorrow thy young days shaded ?
Bere we dwell in holiest bowers
How dear to me the hour .
How oft has the benshee cried
How sweet the answer Echo makes
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111 omens .....
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I'd mourn the hopes that leave me .
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220
I saw from the beach . .
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I saw thy form in youthful prime .
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I've a secret to tell thee, but hush ! not here
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228
I wish I was by that dim lake .
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If thou'lt be mine ; the treasures of air
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In the morning of life . .
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In yonder valley there dwelt, alone
226
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It is not the tear at this moment shed •
88
100
Lay his sword by his side . . .
144
230
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Lesbia has a beaming eye .
94
Let Erin remember the days of old «
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Like the bright lamp that lay, &c.
54
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Love and the novice . » •
106
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My gentle harp, once more I waken
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124
My Nora Creina .
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. 60
Nay, tell me not, dear, that the goblet, &c.
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200
Ne'er ask the hour — what is it to us
172
. 178
Night closed around the conqueror's way .
80
. 182
No, not more welcome the fairy numbers .
122
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Of all the fair months that round the sun .
180
Oh ! Arranmore, loved Arranmore ! .
252
. 218
Oh ! banquet not in those shining bowers .
184
134
Oh ! blame not the bard
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Oh ! breathe not his name .
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Oh ! could we do with this world of ours
140
. 168
Oh ! doubt me not — the season, &c.
136
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Oh ! for the swords of former time
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Oh 1 had wo some bright little isle .
132
Oh ! haste, and leave this sacred isle
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. 142
Oh ! the days are gone, when beauty bright
78
. 106
Oh ! the shamrock . ...
114
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Oh ! the sight entrancing
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. 13
Oh ! think not my spirits are always as light
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Oh 1 'tis sweet to think
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CONTENTS.
Oh ! weep for the hour
Oh ! where's the slave so lowly
Oh, ye dead ! whom we know, &c. .
One bumper at parting !
On music •
Quick ! we have but a second •
Remember the glories, &c. .
Remember thee ! yes, while there's life, &c
Rich and rare were the gems she wore
Sail on, sail on, thou fearless bark .
Shall the harp then be silent ?
She is far from the land
She sung of love, while o'er her lyre
Silence is in our festal halls
Silent, Moyle, be the roar of thy waters
Sing — sing — music was given
Sing, sweet harp, oh, sing to me
Song of the battle-eve
Song of O'Donohue's mistress
Song of Innisfail
St. Senanus and the lady
Strike Jthe gay harp, &c. . .
Sublime was the warning" .
Sweet Innisfallen, fare thee well
Take back the virgin page
The dawning of morn
The dream of those days
Thee, thee, only thee
The fortune-teller .
The harp that onco through Tara's halls
The Irish peasant to his mistress
The legacy ....
The meeting of the waters .
The minstrel boy to the war is gone
The mountain sprite
The night-dance
The origin of the harp
The parallel
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The song of Fionnuala . . . 4$
The song of O'Ruark, Prince of Breffui . 130
The time I've lost in wooing . . 129
The valley lay smiling before me . . 130
The wandering bard . . . 242
The wine-cup is circling in Almhin's hall . 258
The young May moon is beaming, love . 112
There are sounds of mirth, Sec. . . 254
They came from a land beyond the sea • 248
They know not my heart, &c. . . 232
They may rail at this life . . . 170
This life is all chequered with pleasures, &c. 108
Though dark are our sorrows, &c. . . 90
Though humble the banquet, &c. . . 238
Though the last glimpse of Erin, &c. 1- . 18
Through Erin's Isle to sport awhile . 114
Through grief and through danger, &c. . 84
'Tis believed that this harp, &c. . . 59
'Tis gone, and for ever, Sec. . . 150
'Tis the last rose of summer . . 14
To ladies' eyes around, boy . . . 160
To-morrow, comrade, we , . 240
'Twas one of those dreams, &c. . . 210
War song .....
We may roam through this world, &c
Weep on, weep on ! your horn- is past •
What life like that of the bard can be
What the bee is to the flowret
When cold in the earth, Sec.
When daylight was yet sleeping, &c.
When first I met thee warm and young
When he who adores thee . • .
When in death I shall calm recline
When through life unblest we rove
Whene'er I see those smiling eye's
While gazing on the moon's light
While history's mu?e, Sec. .
Wreathe the howl with liow'rs of soul
id one of Ziori ! if closely resembling
You remember Ellen, our hamlet's pride .
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appeared mixed with the foremost of the troops!— Never was such another sight exhibited." — HuiO*l
Look XII. Chap. I.
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And hang o'er thy soft harp, as wildly it breathes ;
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• "In the twenty-eighth year of the reign of Henry VIII. an Act was made respecting the habits and dress
in general of the Irish, whereby all persons were restrained from being shorn or shaven above the ears, or from
wearing Glibbes, or Coulins (long locks), on their heads, or hair on the upper lip, called Gommeal. On tbia oc-
casion a Song was written by one of our bards , in which an Irish virgin is made to give the preference to her
dear Coulin (or the youth with the flowing locks), to all strangers (by which the English were meant), or those
who wore their habits. Of this song the Air alone has reached us, and is universally admired."— Walkke's
Historical Memoirs of Ikisii Bards, page 134. — Mr. Walkku iuformB us also, that about the same period there
were some harsh measures taken against the Irish Minstrels.
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THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S HALLS.
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RICH AND RARE WERE THE GEMS SHE WORE.
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alone from one end of the kingdom to the other with a wand only in her hand, at the top of which was a ring
of exceeding great value; and such an impression had the laws and government of this monarch made on the
minds of all the people, that no attempt was mado upon her honour, nor was she robbed of her clothes or jewels."
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•'Sir Knight! I feel not the least alarm,
No son of Erin will offer me harm:
For, though they lore women and golden store.
Sir Knight! they love honour and virtue more.'
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On she went, and her maiden smile
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And blest for ever is she who relied
Upon Erin's honour nnd Erin's pride.
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THE MEETING OF THE WATERS.*
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TIIE MEETING OF TIIE WATERS.
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'Twas that friends, the beloved of my bosom, were near,
Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear,
And who felt how the best charms of Nature improve,
When we see them reflected from looks that we love.
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Sweet vale of Avoca! how calm could I rest
In thy bosom of shade, with the friends I love best,
Where the storms that we feel in this cold world should cease,
And our hearts, like thy waters, bo mingled ir. peace.
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HOW DEAR TO ME THE HOUR WHEN DAY-LIGHT DIES.
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and sweet !
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So may the words I write Tell through what storms 1 stray, You still the unseen light, Uuiding my way !
THE LEGACY.
WHEN IN DEATH I SHALL CALM RECLINE.
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Then take my harp to your ancient hall,
Hang it up at that friendly door,
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Then if some bard, who roams forsaken,
Revive its soft note in passing along,
Oh! let one thought of its master waken
Your warmest smile for the child of song.
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Keep this cup, which is now o'erflowing
To grace your revel when I'm at rest;
Never, oh! never its balm bestowing
On lips that beauty hath seldom bless'd.
But when some warm devoted lover
To her ho adores shall bathe its brim,
Then, then my spirit around shall hover,
And hallow each drop that foams for him.
• "In every house was one or two Harps, free to all travellers, who
they celled in Music." — O'Uallouak.
were the more caressed , the more
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WE MAY ROAM THROUGH THIS WORLD.
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By a dragon of prudery, placed within call;
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That the garden's but carelessly watch'd, after all.
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Which round the flow'rs of Erin dwells,
Which warns the touch while winning the sense,
Nor charms us least when it most repels.
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roam,
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Oh! remember the smile which adorns her at home.
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In France, when the heart of a woman sets sail,
On the ocean of wedlock its fortune to try,
Love seldom goes far in a vessel so frail,
But just pilots her off, and then bids her good-bye!
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* "Military Orders of Knightfl were very early established in Inland; long before the birth of Christ we
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Call my spirit to the fields above?
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If the fame of our fathers, bequeath'd with their rights,
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Then, ye men of Iberia! our cause is the 6ame —
And, oh! may his tomb want a tear and a name,
Who would ask for a nobler, a holier death,
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For the Shamrock of Erin and Olive of Spain!
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Te Blakes and O'Donnels, whose fathers resign'd
The green hills of their youth, among strangers to find
That repose which, at home, they had 6igh'd for in vain,
Breathe a hope that the magical flame, which you light,
May be felt yet in Erin, as calm and as bright;
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Of the Shamrock of Erin and Olive of Spain !
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Its devotion to feel and its rights to maintain:
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The finger of glory t-hall point where they lie;
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Beneath Shamrocks of Erin and Olives of Spain I
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And I care not how soon I may sink to repose,
When these blessings shall cease to be dear to my mind.
But they who have loved the fondest, the purest,
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That the sunshine of love may illumine our youth,
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And changed to this soft Harp tho sea-maidou's form.
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While her sea-beauties gracefully form'd tho light frame;
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To mingle love's language with sorrow's sail tone;
Till thou didst divide them, and teach the f.tnd lay,
To speak love when I'm near thee, and grief when away!
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with tome pretty (lowers of their Datura] device, which gave pood grace and comeliness unto them; the which it
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Till thy masters themselves, as they rivet thy chains,
Shall pause at the 6ong of their captive, and weep !
* It is conjectured by Wormius , that the name of Irolaml U derived from Yr, the Runic for a bote, in the
rjHO of which weapon the Irish were once very expert. This derivation is certainly more creditable to us than
the following: — "So that Ireland, (called the land of he, for the constant broils therein for 400 years), was now
become the land of concord.'' Lloyd's Stats Worthies. Art. 'The Lord Grandison.'
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Oh ! foul is the slander — no chain could that soul subdue —
"Where shineth thy spirit, there liberty shineth tool
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WHEN THROUGH LIFE UNBLEST WE ROVE.
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Music! oh, how faint, how weak,
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IT IS NOT THE TEAK AT THIS MOMENT SKlD
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Is love from a heart that loves liberty too.
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Your fame, your right,
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In hearts which have suffer'd too much to forget:
And hope shall be crown'd and attachment rewarded.
And Erin's gay jubilee shine out yet.
The gem may be broke
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Each fragment will cast
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And thus Erin, my country, though broken thou art.
There's a lustre within thee that ne'er will decay;
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And now smiles at all pain on the Prince's Day.
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WEEP ON, WEEP ON.
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He Tiad lived for his love, f©r his country he died,
They were all that to life had entwined him;
Nor soon shall the tears of his country be dried,
Nor long will his love stay behind him.
Oh ! make her a grave where the sunbeams rest
When they promise a glorious morrow;
They'll shine o'er her sleep, like a smile from the West,
From her own lovdd island of sorrow.
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MY NORA CREINA,
LESBIA HAS A BEAMING EYE.
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The dress you wear, my Nora Creina!
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Tillow'd on my Nora's heart,
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Bed of peace ! whose roughest part
Is but the crumpling of the roses!
Oh, my Nora Creina dear!
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I SAW THY FORM.
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fate of the Bons of Usnach," which has been translated literally from the Gaelic, by Mr. O'Flanagan (see Vol. I.
of Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Dublin), and upon which it appears that the "Darthula" of Macpherson
is founded. The treachery of Conor, king of Ulster, in putting to death the three sons of Usna, was the tause of
lating war against Ulster, which terminated in the destruction of Eman. "This story (says Mr. O'Flanagan)
has been from time immemorial held in high repute as one of the three tragic stories of the Irish. These are,
'Th" denth of the Children of Touran,' 'The death of the Children of Lear' (both regarding Tuatha de Danans),
and this, 'The death of the Children of Usnach,' which is a Milesian story."— It will be recollected, that, at
page 40 ofthe.se Melodies, there is a Ballad upon the story of the Children of Lear or Lir: "Silent, Moyle ! '' &c.
Whatever may be thought of those sanguine claims to antiquity, which Mr. O'Flanagan and others ad-
vance for ihe literature of Ireland, it would be a very lasting reproch upon our nationality, if the Gaelic researches
of this gentleman did not meet with all the liberal encouragement which they merit.
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Yes, monarch! though sweet are our home recollections,
Though sweet are the tears that from tenderness fall ;
Though sweet are our friendships, our hopes, our affections,
Revenge on a tyrant is sweetest of all !
■ '0 Naisi ! view the cloud that I here see in the sky I I see over Eman green a chilling clond of blood-
tinged red." — Deirdri's Song.
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LOVE AND TIIE NOVICE.
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If he came to them clothed in Piety's vest.
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THIS LIFE IS ALL CHEQUERED.
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TIIE YOUNG MAY MOON.
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ID MOURN THE HOPES THAT LEAVE ME.
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ingenious in furnishing some inducement), he vanishes. I had thought that thifl was the sprite which we call the
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AT THE MID HOUR OF NIGHT.
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And oh ! may our life's happy
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THE VALLEY LAY SMILING BEFORE ME.
THE SONG OF O'RUARK, PRINCE OF BREFFNI.*
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affection for Dearbhorgil, daughter to the King of Meath, and though she had been for some time married to
O'Ruark, Prince of Breffni, yet could it not restrain his passion. They carried on a private correspondence, and
she informed him that O'Ruark intonded soon to go on a pilgrimage fan act of piety frequent in those days), and
conjured him to embrace that opportunity of conveying her from a husband she detested to a lover she adored.
1 Kurchad too punctually obeyed the summons, and had the lady conveyed to his capital of Ferns." — The
li B 'ideric espoused the cause of O'Ruark, while Mac Murchad fled to England, and obtained the assistance
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OH! COULD WE DO WITH THIS WORLD OF OURS.
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Like those gay flies that wing thro' air.
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HAS SORROW THY YOUNG DAYS SHADED.
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That flitted from tree to tree
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Then waft the fair gem away?
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"When sorrow itself look'd bright;
If thus the fair hope hath cheated,
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Oh leave not his sword thus in-glorious to tsleup, —
It hath Victory's life in it yet.
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•'Should some alien, unworthy such weapon to wield,
Mare to touch thee, my own gallant swonl.
Then rest in thy sheath, like a talisman seal'd,
Or return to the ^rave of thy chain mi lord.
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Of a falchion, like thee, on the battle plain, —
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Leap forth from thy dark sheath a.'aiu!"
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WHEN FIRST I MET THEE.
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III.
Ev'n now, though youth its bloom has shed.
No lights of age adorn thee;
The few, who loved thee once, have fled,
And they who flatter scorn thee.
Thy midnight cup is pledged to si
No genial tics enwreath it;
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Has rank, cold hearts beneath it!
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1 thou wilt call, with vain regret.
On her thou 'st lo^t fox erexl
On her who, in thy fortune's fall.
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Go go— 't is vain to nir-c,
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Hate cannot wish thee
Than guilt and sUauie ha\e made thee.
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•'Y<t still tho last crown of thy toils is remaining.
The grandest, the purest, even thou hast yet knuvn;
Though proud was thy ta-k, other nations unchaining,
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Oh, never shall earth see a moment so splendid!
Then, then, had one Hymn of Deliverance blended
The tongues of all nations, how sweet had ascended
The first note of Liberty, Erin ! from thee.
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And shame on the light race, unworthy its good,
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The young hope of Freedom, baptised it in blood.
Th n vanish'd for ever that fair, sunny vision,
Which, spite of the slavish, tne cold heart's derision,
Shall long be remember'd, pure, bright, and elysian.
As first it arose, my lost Erin! on thoe.
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Oh sweet 's the cup that circles then
To those we 've left behind us!
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Some isle or vale enchanting,
Whore all looks flowery, wild, and sweet.
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We think how great had been our bliss.
If Heaven had but assign'd us
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With some we 've left behind us!
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As travelers oft look back, at eve,
When eastward darkly going.
To gaze upon that light they leave
Still faint behind them glowing, —
So, when the close of pleasure's day
To gloom hath near consign'd us,
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Of joy that 's left behind us.
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Ne'er tell me of glories, serenely adorning
The close of our day, the calm eve of our night; —
Give me back, give me back the wild freshness of Morning,
Her clouds and her tears are worth Ev'ning's best light.
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Oh! who would not welcome that moment's returning,
When passion first waked a new life through his frame,
And his soul, like the wood that grows precious in burning,
Gave out all its sweets to love's exquisite flame 1
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WHEN COLD IN THE EARTH.
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O'.-r the waves of a life, long benighted and wild,
Thou cam'st, like a soft golden calm o'er the sea;
Aud if happiness purely and glowingly smiled
On his ev'ning horizon, the light was from thee.
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And though sometimes the shade of past folly would rise,
And though falsehood again would allure him to stray,
He but turn'd to the glory that dwelt in those eyeg,
And the folly, the falsehood, soon vanish'd away.
As the Priests of the Sun, when their altar grew dim,
At the day-beam alone could its lustre repair,
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In moderate time and with spirit.
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In some, as in a mirror,
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Accurst is the march of that glory
Which treads o'er the hearts of the free.
Far dearer the gTave or the prison,
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On Liberty's ruins to fame !
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If the haters of peace, of affection, and glee,
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And leave earth to such spirit* as you, lore, and me.
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NE'ER ASK THE HOUR.
AIR— MY HUSBAND'S A J6URNEY TO PORTUGAL GONE.
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SAIL ON, SAIL ON.
With mournful defiance.
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Then rest thee, bark, but not till then.
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THE PARALLEL.
YES, SAD ONE OF ZION ! IF CLOSELY RESEMBLING.
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Die far from the home it were life to behold;
Like thine do her sons, in the day of their mournin?,
Kemember the bright things that bless'd them of old!
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Ah, well may we call her, like thee, "the Forsaken,"
Her boldest are vanquish'd, her proudest are slaves;
And the harps of her minstrels, when gayest they waken,
Hare breathings as sad as the wind over graves!
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Yet hadst thou thy vengeance— yet came there the morrow,
That shines out, at last, on the longest dark night,
When the sceptre, that smote thee with slavery and sorruf
Was shivor'd at once, like a reed, in thy sight.
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When that cup, which for others the proud Golden City
Had brimm'd full of bitterness, drench'd her own lips,
And the world she had trampled on heard, without pity,
The howl in her halls and the cry from her ships.
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When the curse Heaven keeps for the haughty came over,
Her merchants rapacious, her ruleri unjust,
Atfl — a ruin, at last, for the earth-worm to cover, —
The Lady of Kingdoms lay low in the dust.
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DRINK OF THIS CUP.
AIR-PADDY O'KAFFERTY.
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With the balm and the bloom of her kindliest weather,
This wonderful juice from its core was distill'd,
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Talk of the cordial t hat sparkled for Hf.i.kn,
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And though, perhaps— but breathe it to no one —
Like caldrons the witch brews at midnight so awful,
In secret this philter was first taught to flow on,
Yet— 't is n't less potent for being unlawful.
What, though it may taste of the smoke of that flame,
Which in silence extracted its virtue forhidden —
Fill ii i> — there 's a lire in some hearts 1 could name,
Which may work too its charm, though now lawless and hidden.
So drink of the cup -for <di there 'a ■ spell in
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OF ALL THE FAIR MONTHS, THAT ROUND THE SUN.
SONG OF O'DONOHUE'S MISTRESS.*
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count of Killarney, or, more fully detailed, in Derrick's Letters. For many years after his death, the spirit of this hero
is supposed to have been seen, on the morning of May-day, gliding over the lake on his favourite white horse, to the
sound of sweet unearthly music, and preceded by groups of youths and maidens, who flung wreaths of delicate spring-
flowers in his path. Among other stories connected with this Legend of the Lakes, it is said that there was a young
and beautiful girl, whose imagination was so impressed with the idea of this visionary chieftain, that she fancied her-
self in love with him, and at last, in a fit of insanity, on a May-morning, threw herself into the Lake.
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Its lingering smile on golden eves,
Fair Lake, fair Lake, thou 'rt dearest to me;
For when the last April sun grows dim,
Thy Naiads prepare his steed for bin
Who dwells, who dwells, bright Lake, in thee.
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Of all the proud steeds, that ever bore
Young plumed Chiefs on sea or shore,
White Steed, white Steed, most joy to thee,
till, with the iirst young glance of spring,
From under that glorious lake dost bring
My love, my love, my chief, to me.
TV.
While, white as the sail some bark unfurls,
When newly launch'd, thy long mane' curls,
Fair Steed, fair Steed, as white and free;
And spirits, from all the lake's deep bowers,
Glide o'er the blue wave scattering flowers,
Fair Steed, around my lova and thee.
Of all the sweet deaths that maidens die,
Whose lovers beneath the cold wave lie.
Most sweet, most sweet, that death will be.
Which, under the n nine's light,
Whon thou ami thy steed are lost to light,
Dear love, dear love, I '11 die for thee.
* The boatmen at Killarney call those waves which come on a windy day, crested with foam,
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III.
T is when the sigh, in youth sincere,
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II.
What a union of all the affections and powers,
By which life is exalted, emhellish'd, refined,
Was embraced in that spirit — whose centre was onrs,
While its mighty circumference circled mankind!
VII.
Who, that ever approach'd him, when, free from the crowd
In a home full of love, he delighted to tread
'Mong the trees which a nationhad given, and which bow'd,
As if each brought a new civic crown for his head —
III.
Oh, who that loves Erin— or who that can see,
Through the waste of her annals, that epoch sub-
lime —
Like a pyramid, raised in the desert— where he
And his glory stand out to the eyes of all time!—
VIII.
That home, where— like him, who, as fable hath told,*
Put the rays from his brow, that his child might come
near—
Every glory forgot, the most wise of the old
Became all that the simplest and youngest hold dear I
IV.
That one lucid interval, snatrh'd from the gloom
And the madness of ages, when, fill'd with
soul,
A Nation o'erleap'd the dark hounds of her doom,
And, for one sacred instant, touch'd Liberty's goal!
IX.
Is there one, who hath thus, through his orbit of life,
his But at distance observed him— through glory, through
blame,
In the calm of retreat, in the grandeur of strife,
Whether shining or clouded, still high and the same —
Who, that ever hath heard him— hath drunk at the souree
Of that wonderful eloquence, all Erin's own,
In whose high-thoughted daring the fire, and the force,
And the yet untamed spring of her spirit are shown —
Such a union of all that enriches life's hour,
Of the sweetness we love and the greatness we praise,
As that type of simplicity blended with power,
A child with a thunderbolt only portrays. —
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XI.
An eloquence rich — wheresoever its wave
Wander'd free and triumphant — with thoughts that
shone through,
As clear as the brook's "stone of lustre," and gave,
With the flash of the gem, its solidity too!
Oh no— not a heart, that e'er knew him, but mourns.
Deep, deep o'er the grave, where such glory
shrined—
O'er a monument Fame will preserve, 'mong the urns
Of the wisest, the bravest, the best of mankind!
jussit."
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THEE, THEE, ONLY THEE!
THE DAWNING OF MORN.
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To thee, thee, only thee.
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I have not a joy but of thy bringing,
And pain itself seems sweet when springing
From thee, thee, only thee.
Like spells that nought on earth can break,
Till lips that know the charm haye spoken
This heart, howe'er the world may wake
Its grief, its scorn, can but be broken
By thee, thee, only thee.
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Kot too slow, and uith strong feeling.
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But make thee more painfully dear to thy sons —
Whose hearts, like the young of the desert bird's nost,
Drink love in each life-drop that flows from thy breast.
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MY GENTLE HARP ONCE MORE I WAKEN.
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My drooping Harp, from chords like thine?
Alas, the lark's gay morning measure
As ill would suit the swan's decline!
Or how shall I, who love, who bless thee,
Invoke thy breath for Freedom's strains,
When ev'n the wreaths in which I dress thee
Are sadly mix'd — half flow'rs, half chains?
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But come — if yet thy frame can borrow
One breath of joy, oh, breathe for me,
And show the world, in chains and sorrow,
Hon sweet thy music still can be;
How gaily, ev'n '""id gloom surrounding,
Then yet canst wake at pleasure's thrill —
. ke Bferanon's broken ima^e sounding,
Mid desolation tuneful still.
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A voice divine shall talk in each stream,
The stars shall look like worlds of love,
And this earth he all one heautiful dream
In our eyes— if thou wilt he mine, love!
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And thoughts whose source is hidden and high,
Like streams that come from heaven-ward hills.
Shall keep our bearts, like meads that lie
To be bath'd by those eternal rills,
Ever green, if thou wilt be mine, love!
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All this and more the Spirit of Love
Can breathe o'er them who feel his spells;
Tliit heaven which forms his home above,
He can make on earth, wherever he dwells,
As thou 'It own, if thou wilt be mine, love I
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If at that hour the heav'ns bo not dim,
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'Twixt him and a true lhing lover.
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Down at your fret, in the pale moonlight,
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Am toft as on that ev'ning fell,
When first I saw thy fairy isle!
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Thou wert too lovely then for one
Who had to turn to paths of care —
Who had through vulgar crowds to run,
And leave thee bright and silent thor.
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Ro more along thy shores to come,
But, on the world's dim ocean tost,
Dream of thee .sometimes, as a home
Of sunshine he had seen and lost!
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Far better in thy weeping hours
To part from thee, as I do now,
When Bill La o'er thy blooming bowers,
Like sorrow's veil on beauty's brow.
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Thou dost not look, as then, too 1
Bat, in thy shadows, Beetn'at a place
Where weary man might hope to rest —
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Might hope to rest, and find in thee
A gloom like Kden's, on the day
He left its shade, when every tree.
Like thine, hung weeping o'er his way!
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Weeping or smiling, lovely isle!
And still the lovelier foi thy tears —
For though hut rare thy sunny smile,
'T is Heaven's own glance, when it
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' feeling hearts, whose joys are few,
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neediest light the sun e'er threw
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How mournfully the midnight air
Among thy chords doth sigh,
As if it sought some echo there
Of voices long gone by; —
Of Chieftains, now forgot, who heam'd
The foremost then in fame;
Of Bards who, once immortal deem'd,
Now sleep without a name. —
In vain, sad Harp, the midnight air
Among thy chords doth sigh;
In vain it socks an echo thorn
Of voices long gone by.
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Could'st thou but call those spirits round
Who once, in bower and hall,
Sate list'ning to thy magic sound, —
Now mute and mould'ring all.
But, no— they would but wake to weep
Their children's slavery; —
Then leavo them in their dreamless sleep.
The Dead, at least, are free. —
Ohl hush, sad Harp, that dreary tone,
That knell of Freedom's day,
Or, list'ning to its deathlike uioan.
Let me, too, die away
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With only her tears to guard her.
Eocks, through myrtle honghs
In grace majestic frowning;
Like some hold warrior's brows
That Love hath just been crowning.
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Lakes, where the pearl lies hid,
And caves, where the gem is sleeping.
Bright as the tears thy lid
Lets fall in lonely weeping.
Glens, where Ocean comes,
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And harbours, worthiest homes
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Islets, so freshly fair,
That never hath bird come nigh them,
But from his course thro' air
He hath been won down by them. —
Types, sweet maid, of thee,
Whose look, whose blush inviting,
Never did Love yet see
From heav'n, without alighting.
Then, if, while scenes so grand.
So beautiful, shine before thee.
Pride for thy own dear land
Should haply be stealing o'er thee,
Oh, lot grief corao first,
O'er pride itself victorious —
Thinking how man hath curst
What Heaven had made so elorii cd.
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So brief onr existence, a glimpse, at the most,
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And oft even joy is unheeded and lost,
For want of some heart, that could echo it, near.
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To meet in some world of more permanent bliss;
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Ijeceiv'd for a moment, we '11 think them still ours,
And breathe the fresh air of life's morning once more.
But, come, the more rare such delights to the heart,
The more we should welcome and bless them the more.
They 're ours, when we meet,— they are lost when we part,
Like birds that bring summer and fly when 't is o'er.
Thus circling the cup, hand in hand, ere we drink,
Let Sympathy pledge us, thro' pleasure, thro' pain,
That, fast as a feeling but touches one link,
Her magic shall send it direct thro' the chain.
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Ho turn'd — but, lo, like a startled bird,
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And Bends them, wing'd with worse than death,
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Al.is for her who sits and mourns,
Ev'n now, beside that river —
Unwearied still the Fiend returns.
And stoi'd is still his quiver.
"When will this end, ye Powers of Good?'
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BY THE FEAL'S WAVE BENIGHTED.
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Love came, and brought sorrow
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'T were welcome again.
Though misery's full measure
My portion should he,
I would drain it with pleasure,
If pour'd out by thoe.
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To how to this flame.
If you 've eyes, look but on her.
And blush while you blame.
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Because of its birth?
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For growing near earth?
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To ancestry flies ;
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Is told in her eyes.
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Thro' mortals i>i- line,
Beauty, born of the Graces,
Ranks next to Divine 1
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THEY KNOW NOT MY HEART.
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And turn each thought, each wish I have,
Like willows, downward tow'rds the gTave.
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As they, who to their couch at night
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So must the hopes, that keep this breast
Awake, be quench'd, ere it can rest.
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SHE SUNG OF LOVE.
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Who ever lov'd, hut had the thought
That he and all he lov'd must part?
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The failing imago to my heart —
And cried, "Oh Love! is this thy doom?
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Must ye then lose your golden bloom,
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Then, for Erin and her cause, hurra!
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Nor tear o'er leaf or sod,
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f The Island of Destiny, one of the ancient names ol Ireland.
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OH! ARRANMORE, LOVED ARRANMORE.
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Dwell in a land serene, —
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Led Freedom's Bard their slave at last.
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Tlia* banner of Erin, towering.
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He who now weaves this parting lay
His skilless voice with thine allied;
And sung those songs whose every tone,
When bard and minstrel long have past,
Shall still, in sweetness all their own,
Embalm'd by fame, undying last.
II.
Yet at our feasts, thy spirit long,
Awak'd by music's spell, shall rise;
For name bo link'd with deathless song
Partakes its charm and never dies:
And ev'n within the holy fane,
When music wafts the soul to heaven,
One thought to him, whose earliest strain
Was ecbe'd there, shall long be given.
IV.
Yes, Erin, thine alone the fame, —
Or, if thy bard have shar'd the crown,
From thee the borrow'd glory came,
And at thy feet is now laid down.
Enough, if Freedom still inspire
His latest song, and still there be,
is evening closes round his lyre,
One ray upon its chorda from thee.
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